It’s difficult to discern what’s real from what’s not when it comes to the Nintendo Switch’s successor hardware. We’ve been collecting pieces of the complex puzzle for years and taking every bit of (sometimes erroneous) information as another step on the path to an official announcement. The only absolute truth is that there is nothing official, but it is also true that there are observers who closely follow certain movements in the industry and, from this, precise conclusions can be drawn. This could be one of them.
Insider OreXdaknown for being accurate in the past with its predictions based on reports, components and hardware manufacturing in Asia, especially about Samsung, now https://twitter.com/OreXda/status/1783769460056424674 that the Nintendo Switch 2 has already entered the initial production phase. “Large contracts have already been negotiated in the components industry for initial production.” In fact, the source notes that there would be two models in productionone with LCD screens and the other with OLED panels, both from Samsung.
The second part of his leak is the part that makes us seriously doubt his reliability in this matter, as he claims that the Switch’s successor would be ready to go on sale in the second half of 2024 and not in early 2025 as speculated previously.
Our opinion, based more on the range of information available to us than the possible stock that Nintendo will be stocking during 2024 if the source is correct, is that the console could be ready to go on sale by Christmas, but Nintendo wants the launch line to be as strong as possible, and to achieve this it has to move the launch to the first or second quarter of 2025. It is worth mentioning that Nintendo is preparing a new financial report for the second week of Mayso we might even have something more official about all this before the date arrives.
You never know with Nintendo, but anything is possible.
